Author: (CTDP)Dahie

Textures supervisor, Webdesign, Programming

Changelog for Beta3

Beta testing still going on. Since the beginning of our bugtracking for 2006 we had 250 issues reported and about 240 are fixed. One or two hands full (depending on the number of fingers) is up for the next few days. Today Beta 3 was given to the testers and here is the changelog.

CTDP F1 2006 Mod rF – Beta 3
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– 0000370: [Cars] Mirrors all cars can’t see behind (Afborro) – resolved.
– 0000400: [Cars] Reflection issues on Red Bull (WHAT21A) – resolved.
– 0000262: [Cars] Cockpit Steering wheel shift lights (Afborro) – resolved.
– 0000413: [Cars] Safety car wheels are ‘too shiney’ (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000399: [Cars] BMW: Driver names too small (WHAT21A) – resolved.
– 0000402: [Cars] Williams Driver Names (WHAT21A) – resolved.
– 0000403: [Cars] Tire Textures Lower Lods (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000395: [Cars] Ferrari: Italy frontwing issues by 656 (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000230: [Cars] Cannot get ingame with Midland/Spyker DX7 (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000253: [General] Tachometer Graphic Update (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000307: [Cars] Williams overall shape mistakes (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000404: [Cars] Mapping Issue Williams (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000396: [Cars] Renault Internal Sidepod whole (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000382: [Cars] Hole in Chimney on BMW (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000398: [General] Fsone sound missing in CC (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000393: [General] wrong path & dialog for uninstalling alpha-versions (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000394: [Installer] Installer (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000391: [General] Incomplete Credits list (Dahie) – resolved.

One more thing, the manual is still up, but I was also hit by time-constraints and so the manual will only be in English for now.

Changelog for Beta2

The second beta is given to our testers. The first run was quite effective I think. Many things where reported and the majority is already fixed in the Beta2. Untill the release there will be a scheduled Beta 3 and one Release Candidate. Thanks to the testers, keep up the good job!

Here is the changelog from Beta 1 to Beta 2.

Continue reading Changelog for Beta2

The Lost Mods

CTDP is in its 7th year, naturally, during this time, there have been some projects, we have never talked about. Projects we never announced and often died in an early stage of development. Although CTDP is best-known for their F1-mods, we often planed to release some not-F1-related mods. Today we want to show you some of the projects that never were and never will be. I invite you to tour through our archives. Continue reading The Lost Mods

Another week of beta testing …

Another week of betatesting is over. We got about 30 new reports, mostly minor stuff, but we are on it. Williams will get some more attention, there slipped a few things. Shaun is just on Super Aguri, fixing some small bugs on the texture. Alex has finished the driver body and finished the showroom. I should begin work on the manual today, if I find the motivation (your call). The task nobody wanted to do, so we had to play inverse-russian roullete in the team: 5 bullets for 6 people, last man standing has to do the job. Lucky me.

Today is the difference…

The difference of today to other days is, that today two people apologised for their language in the mail. I could break one of my pencils when I read this. This is not my first rant about this, but I get the feeling it just doesn’t stop, heck why do you talk at all, when you have to apologise for trying your best. Quit it now, you’re embarrassing yourself!

Few weeks ago, I got a very cool and nice mail in spanish. I could barely read it, but I got the point and had people translate it to me for confirmation. Please don’t apologise or just write in German, Spanish, French or Chinese, we get it deciphered, I promise. 😉

Update: I actually thought about adding a PS-Paragraph, but thought “nah, don’t”. Now, I add it:

PS: Please stop asking for Beta-testing. We will not accept any new people and being a good driver is no criteria!

Another two days …

Another two days spent bugfixing. So far there haven’t been major reports, but many of the seemingly insignificant things can turn out quite nast. Like one Williams-frontwing, which had the wrong logo on some GPs, sounds simple, but required a new upgrade, remapping, new shadows, slightly changed texture, which due to yours truly needed to be saved twice. But hey, it looks great now. 🙂

We have our Bugtracker, and we are working through everything, Andy and me fixed 10 bugs in the last 2 days. Afborro is working on some last polish in the showroom. I get organising for the release done. Whata and me will doe some work on the manual. Something nobody else wants to do actually. So we threw dices and picked the people with the least time on their hands. That’s how it works, we don’t complain enough.

Enjoy the last weeks, before the mods is released. I tell you, you are going to miss waiting for it.